Window-screen and the like.



J. F. & L. F- BUGK. WINDOW SCREEN AND THE LIKE. 7

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 10, 1906.

WITNESSES: INVENTIORJ' faae ZTZuc/E W Z I v I ATTdRNEY PATENTED MAY 14,1907.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

JOSEPH F. BUCK AND LEO F. BUCK, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

WINDOW-SCREEN AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application filed September 10, 1906. Serial No. 333,913.

To (all whom it may concern:

residing at (Jamdemcounty of Camden, and

State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin l'Vin- (low-Screens and the Like, of which the following is aspecification.

'My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in screens forwindows and the like, and has for its object to provide an exceedinglysimple and effective device of this description while permitting thefree passage of air and light will prevent the beatingof rain from theoutside to the inside of'the building.

With these ends in View, this invention. consists in the details ofconstruction and combination of elements hereinafter setforth and thenspecifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this inventionappertains may under- I stand how tomake and use the same, we willdescribe its construction in detail, referring by letter to theaccompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in WhichFigure 1 is an elevation of a screen made in accordance with ourimprovement. Fig. 2, a section at the line ac-a: thereof, and Fig. 3, aperspective showing one of the wings bent from the hole from which it iscut.

in carrying out our invention as here embodied, we take a sheet of metalof the desired thickness and so stamp the same with suitable punchersand dies as to form the wings A, and those are bent outward to theproper angle to shed the rain from the outside,

and in practice we prefer that these Wings shall be stag ored, that isto. say, each wing in any row will be located on the dividing line ofthe wings in the row next beneath, after the manner that shingles areused in roofing. This will prevent the rain from driving in between thewings as will be readily understood.

In practice the openings in the sheet metal made by the partial cuttingof the wings 5 therefrom may be of any size, and where the screen isintended to keep out insects, such as flies and mosquitos these openingswould be small enough for this purpose.

Where there is any liability of rain beating in through the screen, thescreen may be reversed in the window so as to bring the pro-.

jecting wings on the inside, and the holes therein may be of sufiicientsize to permit the passage of the flies, and I have found by practicethat when the screen is thus utilized any flies which may be in the roomwill pass therefrom by lighting upon the screen and crawling'upwardunder the wings or hoods and to the outside of the screen, but that'they will not crawl downward from the outside into the, room.

The cost of manufacturing-a screen made in accordance with ourimprovement is much less than the cost of the ordinary wire screen, inthat the sheet metal is chea er 'than the same weight of Wire, and alsocm the fact that the screen may be manufactured by automatic machineryat less cost than the weave of wire into the form of a screen.-

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new anduseful, is i 1. As a new article of manufacture, areticulated windowscreen com rising a 'metal sheet having a series of pe 'orations instaggered relation with ards over the perforations, the said guardsbeing struck from the sheet metal informing the perforations; saidguards being inclined to prevent rain from entering the perforations.

' 2. As a new article of manufacture, a reticulated window screencomprising a metal sheet provided with a series of perforations instaggered relationand a series of integral uards standing at an inclineover theperforations to prevent rain from entering the perforations.

In testimony whereof, wehave hereunto I affixed our signatures in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses. j j.

' JOSEPH F. BUCK. v LEO BUCK.

Witnesses:

FRANK H. BURDSALL, CHARLES H. HAYS.

